After adapting Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in Peter von Kant (2002), and tackling medically assisted suicides in Everything Went Fine (2021), a youthful gay […]

Eve Vertel (Catherine Frôt) is an artisanal rose breeder who inherited her father’s business and is trying to keep it alive in a world of flowers dominated (like most industries) […]

Ema, a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, is the story of an unhappy family set to the pulsing, percussive beat of reggaeton music and images of fire. But its […]

As we head into our second (and far from last) official week of Illinois’s “Stay at Home” order, keeping busy and entertained remains the best way to keep the Coronavirus […]

In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater celebrating 90 years in business is a wonder. When that […]

Documentaries about passionate people also find a way to move me deeply, and you would be hard pressed to find a more passionate group than families in the Republic of […]

Chicago-based Music Box Films has a knack for cherry-picking impressive independent, foreign fare that’s earned acclaim on the international festival circuit and bringing it to discerning American audiences. It worked […]